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Tabard-street area. The property was vested in the Bridge House Estates Trustees,
who were prepared to sell for £935, and the Council on 27th July, 1926, approved
a capital estimate of £1,250 for the purchase, including the expense involved
in connection with the removal of the tenants and incidental costs.
Church Army Housing, Limited, were desirous of developing a site in this
locality for the erection of working-class dwellings and were prepared to take a lease
of the site in question at a rent of £50 a year, which represented the value of the
land for housing purposes. The Council accordingly decided to enter into an arrangement
with the society on these lines, thus securing the clearance of a small insanitary
area and the redevelopment of the site for housing purposes at small cost to public
funds.
East Hill estate, Wandsworth (8 acres) was purchased in 1924 for the purpose of
providing accommodation for rehousing purposes in connection with the clearance
of unhealthy areas. The accommodation for 3,254 persons which will be provided
on the estate has been allocated to various clearance schemes as follows : Hickman'sfolly,
Bermondsey, scheme, 400 persons; Prusom-street, Wapping, scheme, 1,060
persons; Baker's-alley, etc., Poplar, scheme, 200 persons; Bell-lane, etc., Stepney,
scheme, 750 persons; and Tabard-street, etc., Southwark and Bermondsey, scheme,
844 persons. By the end of the year the first eight blocks of dwellings with
accommodation for 1,524 persons in 256 tenements had been completed.
East Hill
estate.
The Council on 4th May and 21st December, 1926, approved capital estimates
amounting to £141,759, for the erection of three further blocks of dwellings, consisting
of 236 tenements with accommodation for about 1,500 persons, together with seven
shops. The work of construction has been entrusted to J. E. Billings and Company.
Limited, the contractors for the erection of the first eight blocks of dwellings, as an
extension of their existing building contracts at the rates and prices contained
therein.
On the 12th October, 1926, the Council accepted the tender of Smethurst and
Company (London), Limited, amounting to £2,067 6s. 6d., for wiring and fitting
blocks Nos. 9 and 10 for electric light.
The Council on 23rd March, 1926, fixed the following scale of weekly net rents for
accommodation in block No. 6 (St. Ives House):—Ground floor—Two rooms, 8s. 6d
and 8s. 9d. ; three rooms, 10s. 6d.; four rooms, 12s. First and second floors—Two
rooms, 9s. and 9s. 3d. ; three rooms, l1s.; four rooms, 12s. and 12s. 6d. Third and
fourth floors combined—Three rooms, 10s. 6d. and 12s.; five rooms, 13s. 6d. and 14s.,
and on 12th October, 1926, the rents for blocks Nos. 7 and 8 (Milford House and
Brixham House) were also fixed as follows:—Ground floor—two rooms, 8s. 6d. to
9s.; three rooms, 10s. 6d. to lis.; four rooms, 12s. 6d. First and second floors—
Two rooms, 9s. to 9s. 6d. ; three rooms, 11s. to 11s. 6d.; four rooms, 13s. Third
and fourth floors combined—three rooms, 11s. to 11s. 3d.; four rooms, 12s. 6d. to
13s.; five rooms, 14s.
The Council on 19th January, 1926, and 21st December, 1926, approved capital
estimates amounting to £1,177 for the paving of footways adjacent to the first
eight blocks of dwellings.
The Council has taken on lease for 120 years a site of about 2.3 acres in area
in White Hart-street, Kennington, the property of the Duchy of Cornwall, for the
purpose of erecting dwellings to be utilised for rehousing purposes under the Chinawalk,
etc., scheme (see above).
Kennings
estate.
It is proposed to erect seven blocks of dwellings with accommodation for 958
persons on the site which when developed will be known as Kennings estate.
On 20th July, 1926, the Council approved a capital estimate of £28,990 for the
erection of the first two blocks of dwellings, to be known as Calstock House and
Fowey House, comprising 66 tenements, containing 144 rooms with accommodation
for 288 persons.